Julius Meinl Trend Collection Espresso Classico box discount

Julius Meinl Espresso Classico, 1 kg of beans

Espresso Classico is the workhorse espresso blend in Julius Meinl's Trend Collection: Arabica and Robusta together, medium roasted, and roasted and produced in Austria. It comes as 1 kg of whole beans, the size that makes sense once you are pulling coffee every day at home or keeping an office going.

In the cup

The aroma is intense for a medium roast. Toasted bread comes first, then dark chocolate and cocoa underneath it. The Robusta in the blend carries the body and the crema, the Arabica keeps the cup from going flat and bitter. Café du Jour puts it at 6 out of 13 and Julius Meinl rates it 6 out of 10 on their own scale — middle of the road either way, dark enough to come through milk in a cappuccino without flattening it.

Where the beans come from

The blend draws on Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. That is a wide spread of origins, which is how a blend like this keeps tasting the same from one bag to the next instead of following whatever a single harvest happened to give.

At a glance

• Brand: Julius Meinl, Trend Collection
• Format: whole beans, 1 kg
• Blend: Arabica and Robusta
• Roast: medium
• Roasted and produced in: Austria
• Intensity: 6 out of 13 (Julius Meinl intensity 6/10)
• Origins: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Vietnam, Indonesia, India
• Flavour: toasted bread, dark chocolate, cocoa
• Suits: bean-to-cup machines and portafilter machines

These are whole beans, so they need grinding, either in the machine or separately; ground coarser they will also go through a filter brewer. Espresso Classico sits alongside the rest of our coffee beans.